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Multiculturalism

POSTED BY: Wishimay
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DREAMTROVE

Saturday, September 10, 2011 3:52 PM

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

I probably should add that 99.99% are white and regular Christian. They don't even ever discuss other religions here, and other cultures only in a generalized sense. I'd also say 99.9 have never been to another country.

You have ten thousand kids?

Seriously, though, yeah, sorry, I thought the group would represent the cultures. In the all whitey group, yeah, probably best to stick to foods and clothes, maybe a dvd..

WISHIMAY

Monday, September 12, 2011 12:03 AM

Ohh, I got an idea! We could have each grade make a poster about any country and then give out "passports" that they get stamped if they can read the posters and answer a question right with adults for each country in costume, with food, maybe..

That'd be fun...

Or play "Pin the country on the place"

RIONAEIRE

Monday, September 12, 2011 4:35 AM

Wish, I think its a great idea to have multicultural day, you could even call it around-the-world day too if you wanted. I don't know why Signe is in a mood today, of course you shouldn't tell little ones in third grade about rape and murder in detail, why would she say all that stuff. Oh well, I suppose we all have bad days.

I think foods are a great way to get the ball rolling, then you could show pictures and have them all write down three facts that they learnt about other countries, you could play little bits of music from other places or have some folk come dressed in the fancy clothes of other places, like Kimonos etc. I remember when I was a young girl we had multcultural day at church, my aunt's coworker lent me her Kimono to wear, I felt really special. So we all wore things from other places, saw some slides of other places and then played a mystery game where we ate food from other places and were told what it was after we tried it. Our favorite was the cocanut candy from Japan I believe it was. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed ourselves very much. Learning about other cultures can be really fun and interesting, plus you'll be teaching them something new and exciting. You should totally do it!!!

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NIKI2

Monday, September 12, 2011 4:24 PM

Wish, I think you're onto some good ideas there. I guess I don't "get" the food thing, kids probably love it, but to me, it's not as important as learning about the people and places. We eat Chinese here--Americanized of course, and pizza doesn't come from Italy, but a lot of kids get exposed to some food or other from other places. So it's probably just me; I think costumes and posters are great ideas; and maps, of course!

If I can help in any way, like I said, just holler. Given you said "grades", sounds like there's more than one; that's quite a task for one person!

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signing off

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 9:36 PM

differences between the West and Japan

WISHIMAY

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:45 PM

Wow, this was a while ago.

Unfortunately, I brought it up to the one and only PTO meeting I attended, and was immediately shot down by one bitch who acted like she spoke for everyone else... I stood up, said, "Well then, if there is to be no intelligent discussion here today, this isn't the place for me." and I left.

They then voted to have a "Duck Dynasty" week. To which I lodged a formal complaint, and they couldn't do that either.

Stooopid bitches, man. All I wanted was a fun day of kids learning...

WISHIMAY

Thursday, January 5, 2017 10:33 AM

That's the problem with all this fighting over "multiculturalism".

That's not what repubs want to eradicate, if they would stop and think about things for second (not much of a chance there). Diverse culture is good for the DNA, good for innovation, production of goods, ect.

They want to pretend ALL immigration as a threat.

We intelligent people know that it isn't, but pretty much everyone can now agree that middle eastern men, and many Mexican men and African men are despicably violent. I wouldn't have a statistic to back that up, and I wouldn't trust a survey these countries would do themselves. (keep in mind native Blacks AND Whites are also pretty damn violent, and maybe that's where the threat comes in.... THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE TO BE MORE VIOLENT THAN THEY ARE....???? )

I wish that republicans would just be honest about what parts of "multiculturalism" it is they don't want.

Historically in this country, we've had rapid growth of business ownership among immigrants, including Chinese, Japanese, Jews, Italians, Greeks, and Koreans. Their money is the good color of green, as long as they don't cause too much trouble...

There are a great many people from many cultures that come here, money in hand. My spouse works for one of those groups. Chances are, many of you have done so as well.

I think having a system of assigning threat levels to people from specific areas and telling these people "You wanna come here, you WILL submit to active monitoring, lie detection, wait lists, spot checks, and we can deport your ass if you so much as BREATHE funny." Is a good step. You ain't free until you prove you DESERVE it. And that's for the people LOW on threat lists. I got nothing against statistical profiling, as long as it's done with reason and not blind malice. I loves me some actuaries

Oh, and building a "wall" is the dumbest damn thing, EVER. Y'all know they have VEHICLES, right? They swim rivers and walk deserts, climbing a wall or driving through a checkpoint is NOTHIN', but a wall is a waste of time and money.

Much like gun control, can't do anything about it, except executing them, even then...won't slow down much... Determined people usually aren't easily swayed...

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, January 6, 2017 7:34 AM

Multiculturalism, Endangerment, and a New Nationalism
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2016/12/multicultural
ism-endangerment-and-a-new-nationalism.html

is Europe going to be 'balkanized'?

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, January 8, 2017 9:16 AM

I think Merkel is done, no need to post in predictions thread as I said it before...when is her next election?

SIGNYM

Sunday, January 8, 2017 5:42 PM

Oct 22, 2017.

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